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This paper addresses two persistent challenges in sequential recommendation: (i) evidence insufficiency-cold-start sparsity together with noisy, length-varying item texts; and (ii) opaque modeling of dynamic, multi-faceted intents across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuchen Miao , Mingxuan Cui , Yitong Zhu , Yu Wang , Siyang Xu

Multimodal data provides heterogeneous information for a holistic understanding of the tumor microenvironment. However, existing AI models often struggle to harness the rich information within multimodal data and extract poorly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Huajun Zhou , Fengtao Zhou , Jiabo Ma , Yingxue Xu , Xi Wang , Xiuming Zhang , Li Liang , Zhenhui Li , Hao Chen

Reinforcement Learning (RL)-Based Recommender Systems (RSs) have gained rising attention for their potential to enhance long-term user engagement. However, research in this field faces challenges, including the lack of user-friendly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yuanqing Yu , Chongming Gao , Jiawei Chen , Heng Tang , Yuefeng Sun , Qian Chen , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang

Multi-modal recommendation systems aim to enhance performance by integrating an item's content features across various modalities with user behavior data. Effective utilization of features from different modalities requires addressing two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Hang Zhou , Yucheng Wang , Huijing Zhan

For modern recommender systems, the use of low-dimensional latent representations to embed users and items based on their observed interactions has become commonplace. However, many existing recommendation models are primarily designed for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Lianghao Xia , Meiyan Xie , Yong Xu , Chao Huang

Learning multimodal representations involves integrating information from multiple heterogeneous sources of data. In order to accelerate progress towards understudied modalities and tasks while ensuring real-world robustness, we release…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Paul Pu Liang , Yiwei Lyu , Xiang Fan , Arav Agarwal , Yun Cheng , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Bundle recommendation systems aim to recommend a bundle of items for a user to consider as a whole. They have become a norm in modern life and have been applied to many real-world settings, such as product bundle recommendation, music…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Ming Li , Lin Li , Qing Xie , Jingling Yuan , Xiaohui Tao

In multimodal-aware recommendation, the extraction of meaningful multimodal features is at the basis of high-quality recommendations. Generally, each recommendation framework implements its multimodal extraction procedures with specific…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Daniele Malitesta , Giuseppe Gassi , Claudio Pomo , Tommaso Di Noia

The increasing availability and diversity of multimodal data in recommender systems offer new avenues for enhancing recommendation accuracy and user satisfaction. However, these systems must contend with high-dimensional, sparse user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yasser Khalafaoui , Martino Lovisetto , Basarab Matei , Nistor Grozavu

Recommender systems aim to enhance the overall user experience by providing tailored recommendations for a variety of products and services. These systems help users make more informed decisions, leading to greater user engagement with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Adamya Shyam , Vikas Kumar , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Arun K Pujari

Most recommender systems adopt collaborative filtering (CF) and provide recommendations based on past collective interactions. Therefore, the performance of CF algorithms degrades when few or no interactions are available, a scenario…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Christian Ganhör , Marta Moscati , Anna Hausberger , Shah Nawaz , Markus Schedl

Explainable recommendations help improve the transparency and credibility of recommendation systems, and play an important role in personalized recommendation scenarios. At present, methods for explainable recommendation based on large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xiangchen Pan , Wei Wei

Accurate news representation is critical for news recommendation. Most of existing news representation methods learn news representations only from news texts while ignore the visual information in news like images. In fact, users may click…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang

User data spread across multiple modalities has popularized multi-modal recommender systems (MMRS). They recommend diverse content such as products, social media posts, TikTok reels, etc., based on a user-item interaction graph. With rising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yash Sinha , Murari Mandal , Mohan Kankanhalli

Multimodal retrieval-augmented Generation (MM-RAG) is a key approach for applying large language models (LLMs) and agents to real-world knowledge bases, yet current evaluations are fragmented -- focusing on either text or images in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Xiangyu Peng , Can Qin , Zeyuan Chen , Ran Xu , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

Multimodal recommendation enhances ranking by integrating user-item interactions with item content, which is particularly effective under sparse feedback and long-tail distributions. However, multimodal signals are inherently heterogeneous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ji Dai , Quan Fang , Dengsheng Cai

With advanced imaging, sequencing, and profiling technologies, multiple omics data become increasingly available and hold promises for many healthcare applications such as cancer diagnosis and treatment. Multimodal learning for integrative…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-20 Sina Tabakhi , Mohammod Naimul Islam Suvon , Pegah Ahadian , Haiping Lu

Recommender systems (RecSys) have been well developed to assist user decision making. Traditional RecSys usually optimize a single objective (e.g., rating prediction errors or ranking quality) in the model. There is an emerging demand in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yong Zheng , David , Wang

Recommender Systems (RS) play a pivotal role in boosting user satisfaction by providing personalized product suggestions in domains such as e-commerce and entertainment. This study examines the integration of multimodal data text and audio…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Zezheng Qin

Multimodal information (e.g., visual, acoustic, and textual) has been widely used to enhance representation learning for micro-video recommendation. For integrating multimodal information into a joint representation of micro-video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Han Liu , Yinwei Wei , Fan Liu , Wenjie Wang , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua